The Raspberry Pi computer – how a bright British idea took flight

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Demand for the basic computer was first driven by hobbyists, but is now bought by educational institutions across the world and the industrial sector, in which the Raspberry Pi has been used to power various machines and control systems.

The original Raspberry Pi went through three iterations, adding more memory and shrinking the size of the board. The Foundation launched a follow up, the Raspberry Pi 2, which is six times as fast as the first version this year, hoping to create a more capable general purpose computer for the same sub-$35 cost.

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We think that this means that in just under 3 years, we’ve gone from zero to being the biggest selling UK computer manufacturer ever. Yowza.